The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-06
PiTH AND POINT.

all work and no play.-Te1as Siflings.
The land booms break out just after
the assessor has been around. Alta
California.
Moving out Of the garrett is the only
way in which some writer's display attic
quit TEXAS Stftings.
Perhaps Mr.. Willard will yet make
another triumphal progress through the
northwest. st. Pant Globe.
Jesse Pomeroy'e attempts at escape
are a good argument for capital Pun.
ishment. Boston Transcript.
The all-summer boycott on the oyster
has been raised. The oyster is being
lifted, too. philadelphia Press.
The hardest kicking on public enter
prises always come from those who
give the least. KANSAS City San.
The undertakers are Frightening up
since the season for hunting prairie
chickens has arrived. --Lincoln Journal.
A lightning calculator-the man who
calculated that lightning wouldn't
strike twice in one place.-Teras
Siftisgs.
One of last weeks lessons for rail-
roads was that the air. brake should
not be made of air alone. philadelphia
Inquirer.
Canada may have the union she is
after, by means of a little band of
gold around her finger -Syracuse
Standard.
In the olden time when a lawyer in.
suited a Judge, court was adjourned for
the duel. Now the lawyer is put in
jail. - Galveston News.
An ingenious Boston man has invent
ed a missile to throw at umpires. which
cal be furnished by the ushers in any
quantity. TEXAS ~Siitlings.
A Chinaman can make money BY
running a T store. while some Caucas-
ians might peddle the whole alphabet
and starve. Texas Sitttngs.
The visit of MI. McGarigle to Hong
Kong will be a great relief to the de-
tectives. They will not have to annoy
him now.-New York Graphic.
Water is supposed to be as cheap and
as plentiful as dirt. yet a jeweler has
no compunction in charging 81 for a
main spring. Charlestown Enterprise.
The statement of our rival is a bare
legged, raw-boned, liberated, weather.
beaten old falsehood, that long ago
wore itself out. -MIwaukee Telegraph.
1t is only the harrassed schoolmaster
who a fully appreciate the p%ertinency
Of the name boys give to tennis shoes
sneakers, -Boston Journal Of Educa-
ton.
While those learned doctors are in
Washington it may be we'll for Uncle
Sam to show 'em that dreadfully swol-
len surplus leg of his. -PhWade!phia
Record.
The m;lkmen have added l cent a
quart, with the understand ng that the
milk is to be pure. This may relieve
the demands IN the pumpingworks. -
!. Milwaukee Sentinel.
The children for whom there is not
school a 90 up the river
and muse themselves watching the
expenditure of funds for a flushing tun-
nel.-Milwaukee Sentinel
A Bar Harbor girl who was told by
an old boatman to be sure and have her
boat we'll trimmed went to work and
sewed two silk flounces around the gun
wale.- YopEers Statesman.
The prince of Siam goes home by the
Canada route. He avoided San Fran
cisco, and it is just as we'll. for his
favorite drink is a mixture of beer and
lemonade. Alta California.
The umo that the ex-bank cashiers
in Canada would organize a trust
appears to be unfounded. They are
to we'll acquainted with each others
hands. -Le0venW0rM Times.
II man and wife are n flesh no
wonder it is such a painful operation
for them to get divorced. And, by the
should only be granted on Twos-day.-
Charleston Enterprise.
Many a lady. will 'extol the fairness
and spread the fame of a business house
during her whole lifetime Just because
of some little concession they made to
her, which cost them little, but fiatter-
ed her self esteem.-Ca Carpet Trade and
ReUieW.
Many a man thinks that is his good
ness which keeps him from crime, when
it is only his full stomach. On half
allowance he would be as ugly and
knavish as anybody. Don't mistake
potatoes for principles!-Burl&~gtom
Justice.
1t is a little hard on Gen. Miles to
have escaped the perils of the wal and
of numerous Indian campaigns only
to have his leg broken by falling from
a tally-ho coach. Fate seems to love a
joke once in a while, even if it be a
painful. one to the subject.-New York.
World.